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October 19, 2017

Aiven talks shop with Paf at second Apache Kafka meetup

In August, Aiven created an Apache Kafka meetup in Helsinki to discuss hot topics surrounding Kafka.

Due to its popularity, we decided to make it an ongoing event and held our second meetup yesterday.

This time, around 30 people attended Lifeline Ventures‘ office in downtown Helsinki and there were two presenters:

Niklas Nylund of Paf, an operator of slots, lotteries, poker and casino games as well as betting both online and in casinos.

Heikki Nousiainen, our CTO

First up was Nylund to discuss the ins and outs of how his team brought in to act as a data bus for their real-time analytics needs.

Kafka reduces the spaghetti

Paf collects Change Data Capture events from databases and sends the events to Kafka, which are then consumed and imported into Kudu for analytic work. Although Kafka possesses its quirks, Nylund is satisfied with how Paf has been able to use it to streamline their architecture.

Join the next Kafka discussion

As the transition from a monolithic to microservices architecture continues, the use case for integrating Kafka as a streaming platform will only strengthen.

This is evidenced by the increase in attendance of our events where many developers, be they users of Kafka or not, are gathering to learn more about what Kafka is, its use cases, and best practices for implementing it.

We are planning another Aiven Kafka meetup for December/January timeframe, so join the Helsinki Apache Kafka Meetup group to get the details when we finalize the plans and we’ll see you soon!